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Contemporary Musicians
December 1991 , Volume: 6
by Marjorie Burgess
Personal Information
Born Robert Matthew Van Winkle, October 31, 1967 (one source says 1968), in Miami, FL; son of Beth Mino (a music teacher and classical pianist). Education: Attended R. L. Turner High School; received high school diploma through correspondence course from the American School. Discovered in 1987 at the City Lights Talent Show, Dallas, TX; opened for City Lights opening acts, including Tone-Loc, Public Enemy, and Paula Abdul; City Lights owner Tommy Quon became his talent manager in 1988; formed Vanilla Ice Posse (VIP) with City Lights disc jockey Earthquake (Floyd Brown) and dancers Hi-Tec (Jay Huffman), E-Rock (Everett Fitzgerald), and Juice (Marc Grinage). Recording artist and touring performer; film appearances include cameo role in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Secret of the Green Ooze; television appearances include Into the Night with Rick Dees, Friday Night Videos, Saturday Morning Videos, MTV's Hot Seat, Saturday Night Live, American Music Awards, The Arsenio Hall Show, and MTV Tailgate Party for the Superbowl; has made endorsements for Nike and Coke.
Awards: Favorite new artist award from the American Music Awards, 1991.
Addresses
Record company--SBK Records (distributed by CEMA), 1750 North Vine St., Hollywood, CA 90028.
Fan Club--Vanilla Ice Fan Club, P.O. Box 261117, Plano, TX 75026-1117.
Vanilla Ice, the white boy who recorded the first rap single to hit Number One on Billboard's Hot 100 pop chart, was controversial from the moment he arrived on the music scene. Accused of inventing his image as an urban rapper, the Iceman, whose real name is Robby Van Winkle, lowered his pants on Rick Dees's TV show to display scars he claims he received in a knife fight. He informed his critics in his acceptance speech as favorite new artist at the 1991 American Music Awards Ceremony that they could kiss his white posterior. With a hit single, "Ice, Ice Baby," that catapulted sales of his first album, To The Extreme, to five million in three months, Vanilla Ice is a hot new performer who seems to defy categorization. "So who is he," questioned People, among others, "fibber or phenom, street kid or star...?" Ice answered them all in Newsweek: "I'm 100 percent original."
Robert Matthew Van Winkle was born on Halloween in 1967 in Miami, Florida. His father left his mother, Beth Mino, a music teacher and classical pianist, while she was pregnant with Van Winkle. "I will not say anything about my father. Period," Ice told People. "I don't have a dad." His mother raised him and an older half-brother in culturally and ethnically mixed neighborhoods of Miami. When Van Winkle was five years old he became interested in music and dance. "I picked up the dance steps from what I saw the black kids doing in the streets," he related in his autobiography Ice By Ice. "The streets of Miami--that was my dance school." As a youngster Van Winkle shunned formal music lessons, never learning to play an instrument. His childhood dream was to become a motocross champion. Eventually he won a few amateur regional motocross titles; at one point in late adolescence he broke his ankles in a race.
Van Winkle was a difficult child, moody and temperamental, who used to play truant from grade school. His mother tried in vain to modify his behavior by seeking counseling and changing addresses frequently. When Van Winkle was eight his mother married Ecuadorean Byron Mino, whom she met when he sold her a car. Although family economics improved, the marriage broke up after three years. The couple got back together for a time after the divorce, but did not remarry. In his teens Van Winkle moved with his family, which now included a younger sister, to a middle-class suburb of Dallas where Mino had landed a better auto sales position. Van Winkle continued to rap and dance; he was also hanging out on weekends with gang members who took joy rides and picked fights. At a hospital after one skirmish in which he was stabbed several times, Van Winkle found God and gave up gang life. Dropping out of suburban R. L. Turner High School in his second year, he worked as a lot attendant at the car dealership where his stepfather was employed.
Contemporary Musicians
December 1991 , Volume: 6
by Marjorie Burgess
Personal Information
Born Robert Matthew Van Winkle, October 31, 1967 (one source says 1968), in Miami, FL; son of Beth Mino (a music teacher and classical pianist). Education: Attended R. L. Turner High School; received high school diploma through correspondence course from the American School. Discovered in 1987 at the City Lights Talent Show, Dallas, TX; opened for City Lights opening acts, including Tone-Loc, Public Enemy, and Paula Abdul; City Lights owner Tommy Quon became his talent manager in 1988; formed Vanilla Ice Posse (VIP) with City Lights disc jockey Earthquake (Floyd Brown) and dancers Hi-Tec (Jay Huffman), E-Rock (Everett Fitzgerald), and Juice (Marc Grinage). Recording artist and touring performer; film appearances include cameo role in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Secret of the Green Ooze; television appearances include Into the Night with Rick Dees, Friday Night Videos, Saturday Morning Videos, MTV's Hot Seat, Saturday Night Live, American Music Awards, The Arsenio Hall Show, and MTV Tailgate Party for the Superbowl; has made endorsements for Nike and Coke.
Awards: Favorite new artist award from the American Music Awards, 1991.
Addresses
Record company--SBK Records (distributed by CEMA), 1750 North Vine St., Hollywood, CA 90028.
Fan Club--Vanilla Ice Fan Club, P.O. Box 261117, Plano, TX 75026-1117.
Vanilla Ice, the white boy who recorded the first rap single to hit Number One on Billboard's Hot 100 pop chart, was controversial from the moment he arrived on the music scene. Accused of inventing his image as an urban rapper, the Iceman, whose real name is Robby Van Winkle, lowered his pants on Rick Dees's TV show to display scars he claims he received in a knife fight. He informed his critics in his acceptance speech as favorite new artist at the 1991 American Music Awards Ceremony that they could kiss his white posterior. With a hit single, "Ice, Ice Baby," that catapulted sales of his first album, To The Extreme, to five million in three months, Vanilla Ice is a hot new performer who seems to defy categorization. "So who is he," questioned People, among others, "fibber or phenom, street kid or star...?" Ice answered them all in Newsweek: "I'm 100 percent original."
Robert Matthew Van Winkle was born on Halloween in 1967 in Miami, Florida. His father left his mother, Beth Mino, a music teacher and classical pianist, while she was pregnant with Van Winkle. "I will not say anything about my father. Period," Ice told People. "I don't have a dad." His mother raised him and an older half-brother in culturally and ethnically mixed neighborhoods of Miami. When Van Winkle was five years old he became interested in music and dance. "I picked up the dance steps from what I saw the black kids doing in the streets," he related in his autobiography Ice By Ice. "The streets of Miami--that was my dance school." As a youngster Van Winkle shunned formal music lessons, never learning to play an instrument. His childhood dream was to become a motocross champion. Eventually he won a few amateur regional motocross titles; at one point in late adolescence he broke his ankles in a race.
Van Winkle was a difficult child, moody and temperamental, who used to play truant from grade school. His mother tried in vain to modify his behavior by seeking counseling and changing addresses frequently. When Van Winkle was eight his mother married Ecuadorean Byron Mino, whom she met when he sold her a car. Although family economics improved, the marriage broke up after three years. The couple got back together for a time after the divorce, but did not remarry. In his teens Van Winkle moved with his family, which now included a younger sister, to a middle-class suburb of Dallas where Mino had landed a better auto sales position. Van Winkle continued to rap and dance; he was also hanging out on weekends with gang members who took joy rides and picked fights. At a hospital after one skirmish in which he was stabbed several times, Van Winkle found God and gave up gang life. Dropping out of suburban R. L. Turner High School in his second year, he worked as a lot attendant at the car dealership where his stepfather was employed.
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